Dannah Gresh > Quotes

“When you truly love God, you obey Him.”
― Dannah K. Gresh, Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty

“The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it most intently when we are with people. Loneliness is the knowing in our heart that we were created to really, truly know each other in the deepest sense but we feel stuck with superficiality.”
― Dannah Gresh

“A girls heart must be so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him to find her”
― Dannah Gresh, Get Lost: Your Guide to Finding True Love

“Is it possible that God had something else in mind?”
― Dannah Gresh

“People sometimes say that it is “old-fashioned” to define morality based on the Bible, but nothing is more “old- fashioned” than wanting to define right and wrong for ourselves.”
― Dannah K. Gresh, Pulling Back the Shades: Erotica, Intimacy, and the Longings of a Woman's Heart

“[She] awkwardly grasped for an answer based upon going to church. The more she talked, the more she realized that she knew a lot about God, but she didn't have a personal relationship with Him.”
― Dannah K. Gresh, Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty

“Is something bad happening in your life right now? Fall into his everlasting arms today.”
― Dannah Gresh, The One Year Devos for Teen Girls

“I am already dead to sin, living a new life, and have been given my inheritance in heaven.”
― Dannah Gresh, The One Year Devos for Teen Girls

“Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. Romans 8:5”
― Dannah Gresh, The One Year Mother-Daughter Devo

“something to me also.” Have you, like I sometimes do, begun to believe you are the only one who benefits from meeting with God? We get so “busy” with life that we don’t even realize that God is missing that time with us like we are missing that time with him.”
― Dannah Gresh, The One Year Devos for Teen Girls

“God has equipped you to do amazing things, but everything takes practice. Find a way to ask—that’s right—ask for constructive criticism today. Get ready to learn, and be set free!”
― Dannah Gresh, The One Year Devos for Teen Girls

“words themselves are not dangerous, but they are indicative that the subject feels isolated from other people and thus focuses on himself more.”
― Dannah Gresh, The One Year Devos for Teen Girls

“Train up a child in the way he should go,and when he is old he will not depart from it.”PROVERBS 22:6 NKJV”
― Dannah Gresh, Six Ways to Keep the "Little" in Your Girl: Guiding Your Daughter from Her Tweens to Her Teens

“I believe. I doubt. I believe. . . . I don’t know!”
― Dannah Gresh, The One Year Devos for Teen Girls